Sheila Marionneaux is a Senior Project Leader for ITG Strategic Services Team at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) in Chicago, Illinois. Sheila's core business specialties include: public relations; communications planning and implementation; and the facilitation and oversight of major meetings and corporate events. She has been with HCSC for 11 years and is responsible for supporting the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), in the delivery of strategic, and creative communications for various internal and external audiences.
Sheila’s extensive project work within an IT environment, combined with years of employee rewards and recognition program administration support, and “two-way communications” advocacy within the ITG Division, has well served her with organic knowledge to support divisional and enterprise initiatives spanning four Blue Cross Blue Shield Plans (Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico).
Sheila has enjoyed a successful 25-year career in Communications, PR, and Organizational Fundraising and Development, having worked for corporate and not-for-profit employers such as Harpo, Inc., WTTW Channel Eleven, CB Richard Ellis, and Chicago Business Volunteers for the Arts, to name a few.
She continues to serve and hold executive officer roles on various boards and committees, and volunteers as a Corporate Champion for Health Care Service Corporation’s BDPA Corporate Chapter. (HCSC is the National BDPA 2008 Epsilon Award Winner for Top Companies for Blacks in IT). Sheila is a United Way Manager Ambassador and is also an advocate for the prevention of domestic violence.
As a well accomplished and refreshingly creative free lance writer, Sheila provides high profile interview articles for her ‘GEEKS Gone GREAT’ feature at Blacks Gone Geek, an online community that serves to inspire a new generation of African Americans to consider and select IT careers.
Sheila is a graduate of Columbia College of Chicago, where she studied Broadcast Journalism and majored in Public Relations. Sheila is a Chicago native and has two daughters.